The private sector industries that have reported difficulties in acquiring foreign exchange to import needed resources are not the only ones operating well below capacity. 

Mexican Juan Pablo Martínez is a mechatronics engineer who created the Automatische Technik robots that specialize in the packing, unpacking and repackaging of products as well as plugging bottles. 

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development invited Costa Rica to apply as a candidate for membership five years after it began its “push to join the exclusive club of developed economies.” 

Uruguay’s GDP expanded a strong 3.5% during 2014 over the previous year, with positive activity in most sectors of the MERCOSUR member economy. 

San Pedro Sula became the center for renewable energy in the country with an effort to build the largest photovoltaic project in Latin America. 

Oriol Bonaclocha, the German company’s director in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, notes that Henkel has been doing business in Guatemala for forty years, and is expanding its activities there. 

In the search for evidence of nepotism and favoritism, the comptroller Federico Humbert ordered an audit of all contracts at the Instituto de Mercado Agropecuario (IMA). 

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Alonso Segura, reaffirmed that Peru will lead in economic growth among Latin American countries in 2015. 

The first International Forum for Emancipation and Equality was held in Buenos Aires in mid-March 2015.  It wrestled with the ongoing aftershocks of the 2008 global financial crisis, and pointed to the risks represented by the world capitalist economy. Noam Chomsky gave the keynote address that pointed to the weakening of the neoliberal regime, but

According to a report on Colombia’s regional economies by the Banco de la República, the center of the country has experienced increased unemployment and widespread inflation.